[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Channel layout and storage?

[Lachlan Musicman]

Don't mind me - I've just realised *I* was thinking about it the wrong way.
Sorry.

L.

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The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
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- Grace Hopper

On 18 March 2016 at 15:03, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> And then, if I want to add a new channel - say for SLURM, should I add the
> repos to the SLURM channel (multiplying hosting), or create new child
> channels (mulitplying names....)
>
>
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> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
> way."
>
> - Grace Hopper
>
> On 18 March 2016 at 15:01, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How do people layer their Channels?
>>
>> I am finding that because Channels can't have the same name as other
>> channels, and they are built top down rather than bottom up, that I have to
>> come up with a new Centos Base name for each channel?
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> For eg, I have 3 system types (for *example*):
>>
>>  - base Centos 7
>>
>>  - Spacewalk server = base Centos7 channel + Spacewalk server channel
>>
>>  - other server = base Centos 7 channel + Spacewalk client channel
>>
>>
>> But since base Centos 7 is already a parent, I can't put it into the
>> Spacewalk server parent channel.
>>
>> I can, I guess, subscribe spacewalk-server parent channel to the
>> appropriate repos, but if I then sync against all those repos, am I
>> multiplying the number of times I'm hosting the same file set?
>>
>> Cheers
>> L.
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>> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
>> way."
>>
>> - Grace Hopper
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